Trump's bounty on American Soldiers heads. THIS!

[ffr]

Link to tweet

Sorry son but Putin paid a bounty for your Dad's life and Trump and the entire Republican party doesn't give a shit about it

[empedocles]

1. The trumpers need to be bombarded with this kind of thing as much as possible

[Moostache]

4. Seriously, Fuck the Trumpers...they are a lost cause entirely...

INDEPENDENTS and UNDECIDEDS need to be seeing it...Trumpers are not worth the oxygen they consume to keep their hate-filled lungs spewing forth bullshit...

[calimary]

12. True. They'll just find some lame-ass way to justify it.

Or, don't forget that old fave-rave: "it's God's will... "

And this lifelong Catholic will shriek: NO! DAMMIT! It's NOT GOD'S WILL that this sweet little boy will now be FATHERLESS for the rest of his life!!!!!!!!!!!! That he has no daddy anymore. That his mommy is alone, and has to soldier on ALONE to try to make things work and keep her family together - ALONE.


NO!!!!!!!!!!

I will NEVER EVER EVER be satisfied with that bullshit thoughtless callous smug sanctimonious unfeeling uncaring unsympathetic unempathetic shrug-off. Yeah, maybe it makes YOU feel better as you go home to your comfortable cozy little selfish mindset. But that family is broken. As are their hearts. Especially in the case of that child.

[empedocles]

16. At the least, it will not make the trump voter feel good, especially as they notice people they know

getting infected.

Hopefully, some of the are not beyond all hope.

[mercuryblues]

20. Or you could say

I didn't know Putin is God.

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R x 1,000,000

[sop]

3. How many investigations did Republicans hold following the 2012 Benghazi attack?

[ace3csusm]

34. The Bounty Trials Need to Start

Start bring in the intelligence commit, start asking whats being done, have they stopped etc we can let this die we need more info now..

[mnmoderatedem]

5. We HAVE to make hay with this issue

we CANNOT let trump skate on this like he seemingly does everything else.

And frankly it should be easy. The narrative goes like this:

trump, you want us to believe that you were unformed of bountygate. To believe this you have to believe, among other things, that we saw fit to notify our British allies of the situation, but failed to inform the president. This is not believable for one second. If you were unaware of the situation it it is because you were to busy playing golf and watching TV. It strains credibility beyond imagination.

But hey let's play the game your way if you like. You claim the intelligence is not actionable because there was no unanimous consensus among our intelligence sources. By that standard, we never would have invaded Normandy on D-Day, never would have hunted down and killed the terrorist mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks, and countless other examples. Your excuse simply does not fly.

But in any case, what do you do at a MINIMUM, if you are uneasy about your unanimous consensus? You demand no stone unturned. You demand further investigation in order to find out exactly what the hell is going on, so you can protect our fighting men and women that you profess to love so much. You don't just declare it a "hoax" and move on, like you did. Now Putin is sitting back and smiling because he knows you won't lift a damn finger because you demonstrated precisely that. You've thrown our troops to the wolves, you just don't care because caring about them would get in the way of your pro Russian agenda.

You abandoned our troops. And sorry, getting and stage and hugging the flag is not going to help you this time.

In fact, we are not even sure which flag you would be hugging.

[erronis]

19. Great post.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. "Why should I waste my beautiful mind..." trDump

He simply can't be bothered with such trivial matters especially if he's being blamed.

[not_the_one]

57. That was Babs Bush.

Per SNOPES

Barbara Bush ‘Beautiful Mind’ Quote
The former first lady said she didn't want to waste her 'beautiful mind' on the casualties that might be sustained during the war in Iraq.

Snopes Staff

But you know damn well the turd is of the same mind (and his AIN'T beautiful, it's more like Hieronymus Bosch's painting of hell). He doesn't give a fuck.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. While I appreciate the message (its perfect)

I DO hope they person using the images of these two individuals got their permission. Especially the child.

If a deplorable used images without permission to deride Mr. Biden, we would not stand for it.

[soothsayer]

7. My first thought too

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. 👍

[yonder]

26. Thank you.

[70sEraVet]

27. I agree

If it can't be verified that that image was used with family's permission, it should be removed from DU. We are better than this.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. Yup

[Nature Man]

32. Thank you for your concern

please proceed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

41. That is uncalled for here

Just wrong.

[grantcart]

58. Stolen grief similar to stolen valor

They don't pay for the pain but want to exploit the victims.

Uses like this need to be factual, transparent and agreed to.

[Ferrets are Cool]

59. Yup

I consider us to be better than this.

[Gothmog]

8. trump is a Russian asset

[UCmeNdc]

10. Trump still has not challenged Putin about this policy!

[MissKat]

11. What do we know about this child?

Sorry. I don't like this. Has this child given his permission for this use?

i really get angry when children are used to score political points.

This isn't okay. Without context it's a sad picture of a sad kid who is obviously devastated.

I question what Russia has on Trump. I think we could be talking serious grounds for impeachment.

Still doesn't mean this kid's anguish is ours to use.

[70sEraVet]

28. I'm looking for a way to complain

to DU administrators. I don't want to see this unless DU can assure that the family gave permission.

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. The photo was taken in 2007....

And the boys name is Christian Golcyznski, so he is 21 now. His father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marcus Golczynski, was killed in Iraq in 2007.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-iconic-wartime-photo-pays-it-forward-christmas-flna2D11785489

[Eyeball_Kid]

13. There's pervasive incompetence, and then there's THIS.

He's a fucking murderer. He's murdering our soldiers and he doesn't give a shit. Every day that goes by is another day in which we sink lower and lower as a nation, and Trump is pulling us down. He's pulling all of us down.

The Mary Trump book shows how monstrous Trump is. It's not abstract, not hypothetical. It's concrete with devastating results, every day.

Just look at today's Trumpian headlines. Look at what he's doing to the school system. He can't keep his destructive hands off anything.

I hope that fucker doesn't win ONE STATE in the election. I hope he's trounced, and if he tries to stay in the White House, he's got to be dragged out by his fucking hair.

Enough of this institutional GRAVITAS. He's an imposter. He's not a president. He's a know-nothing con artist sociopath who fakes it through every day, throwing up one outrage after another so we can't focus on the basic question: What the fuck are you doing in office? He kills without remorse. He is a traitor without remorse. He's amused by his own lying, now over 20,000 of them since inauguration.

Again, HE'S A TRAITOR WITHOUT REMORSE.

[Dustlawyer]

14. +1!!!

[hedda_foil]

15. Traitorous pos.

[Nictuku]

17. That photo still makes me tear up

Such pain in that boy's face.

This does go way back, but the sentiment is spot on.

[70sEraVet]

29. What do you mean, "this does go way back"?

Do you know the photo?

[A HERETIC I AM]

37. The photo is 13 years old.

See my post above.

[Nictuku]

55. Thanks for the article

I didn't know that a charity had been started. I do remember the photo from the Iraq war, it moved me then too.

From the article, the last paragraph:

And Christian believes his dad would be proud of the young man who showed so much strength in a photo that touched so many people in 2006.

"Yeah," he said. "He'd be smiling."

[A HERETIC I AM]

56. Glad to help clarify things

I remembered the photo from years ago, just before Obama took office. It was touching then and it is touching now.

It's just that the young boy is now a young man of voting and drinking age!

[demigoddess]

18. brave boy!

[McCamy Taylor]

21. Bonus points for good pr use of an appalling story

[themaguffin]

25. what is the picture from?

[BamaRefugee]

22. but...but...but...some GENERAL says it never happened! You know, that general that Putin paid off...

[lagomorph777]

24. Pay For Slay will kill the Trump monster.

[LymphocyteLover]

30. fuck traitor Trump and the complicit GOP to hell

for ALL the incredible damage they've done

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. Are all 4000 of you OK with the use of this image without knowing if permission was given

by the people pictured????

based on over 4K views

[70sEraVet]

35. No

I complained to DU admin. Said unless they verify that the photo is used with family's permission, it should be removed immediately.

[A HERETIC I AM]

39. You're wrong.

There is no restriction on using a readily available photo that was spread across numerous news sites at the time.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. This photograph falls under public domain, basically.

It was taken in 2007 and is readily available on numerous news sites and a simple Google search.

See my post #36 above.

[druidity33]

44. I'd like to ask this kid...

who's now obviously an adult, whether this photo being widely disseminated affected his life in any way. As a photographer and a human being i would very much like to know whether photographing grief is acceptable. It's always seemed disrespectful to me.

[A HERETIC I AM]

45. Read this article.

The young man was involved in a charity that sprung up as a result of the photograph.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-iconic-wartime-photo-pays-it-forward-christmas-flna2D11785489

[druidity33]

48. I did, but...

it was written when the kid was a Junior in HS. I would prefer to have the perspective of an adult in this instance.

[A HERETIC I AM]

49. Maybe he's just not as worried about it as a bunch of old folks on an internet message board

[druidity33]

50. true... that's a definite maybe.

Of course who can know without asking the fella? Just sayin'...

It sounds to me like the photograph was a net positive in his life. Nonetheless i'm a curious person and would want to know whether he would have rather never been photographed...

[Nature Man]

53. LOL!!!!

old fart sitting here and I agree.

[A HERETIC I AM]

54. ....

[sanatanadharma]

40. For our concerned new members (welcome) of a like mind, this picture is widely published

The picture can be found on these sites; based on Google similar image search.
pinterest.com
nbcnews.com
sites.pdu.ecu
army.mil
af.mil
military.com
norfolkdailynews.com
marshalltribune.com
red
dnj.comdit.com

The image shows up in at least one previous meme.

[70sEraVet]

42. Thank you

I should have known that the moderators would have flagged something like that. It's reassuring.

[Vinca]

52. It just bothers me that a photo like this is used for a meme - even if it's something

I believe. Leave this grieving family alone.

[dmr]

43. That is truly a heartbreaking photo

Trump and his pal, Putin can go to hell.

[Cha]

46. So sad but appreciate that Treasonous Murderous

Treachery by trump & the gang of magats is staying front and center!

RT.

[ffr]

47. Damn right!

I forgive, but not for this circus of traitors and even when I forget, I don't really forget. It just burns inside me like an eternal fire. Treachery must be reconciled.

[Champp]

51. Draft dodging republican hustlers have betrayed our honorable US troops